# Access PDF in Perspective - From a File System **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [April 5, 2022, 12:08pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/access-pdf-in-perspective-from-a-file-system/58039 "2022-04-05T12:08:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/access-pdf-in-perspective-from-a-file-system/58039/2 "2022-04-05T12:24:56Z")
> [@Prasad\_Tarapure](#): > > We do not have a web development module. That eliminates the only official way to do this from within Ignition. Your other option would be to place `nginx` or `apache` in front of Ignition, where those serve your files and reverse proxy to Ignition for everything else. As suggested here: > [@Display image from LAN blocked in perspective](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/display-image-from-lan-blocked-in-perspective/34693/4): > > Entirely inside Ignition, you can use the Webdev module to ‘host’ a directory on the filesystem and expose it. Or (my recommendation), you can put a webserver ‘in front of’ Ignition that will actually receive requests (and serve the static files) and then reverse-proxy to Ignition on appropriate routes. On a Linux system, nginx is my go-to for this, because it’s reasonably easy to set up, very well documented, and very performant/stable. I don’t know of equivalent software for Windows. If you a… If you can place your PDFs in a database, you might experiment with this: > [@Automation Professionals' Blob Server Module](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/automation-professionals-blob-server-module/57970): > > Automation Professionals is pleased to announce an alpha release of its new Blob Server Module. Available only for Ignition v8.1, here. The Blob Server Module provides a simple way to deliver images, PDF files, or other binary content from a database to your Perspective clients or other web applications. Without needing the WebDev module. All you need is a Named Query that has appropriate security settings and returns a single row with two columns: Content, and ContentType. Modest documentati… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/access-pdf-in-perspective-from-a-file-system/58039)._